Since this is 'Security' section we often ignore dedicated anti-spyware SW's as most AV's come with integrated built-in Anti-spyware Software (AS-SW in short) these days..
Although AVG, Avast other free AV's do not have AS-SW built-in & hence many of us prefer Dedicated anti-spyware (Gosh! .. Dedicated is always better than integrated eg: GPu's)
About an year ago my laptop was under attack... Multi-trojans, Data stealers, Spy Keystroke loggers...
& a Alpha Cleaner... the Biggest most elaborative Trojan Downloader..
I tried everything the Spywares wont go.. i used all Free Anti-spywares.. available at that time.
With a quick research i purchased Webroot.. It cleared all the mess accumulated over a month in less than 20 mins..
Other Features that made me stick to it next year also was Its Moderate resource usage, Good technical support on the website & Not to mention its great GUI & Tonnes of shields...
Ad blockers, IE Hijack shields, Realtime shields etc etc
Since then i ve been using it..
Any Other Webroot users here? How do u think it compares to Spybot Search n Destroy?
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SpySweeper has long been considered one of the best commercial anti-spyware tools, so I think you'll be happy with it. IMO it has been surpassed by a-squared, though. I used to run 2-3 anti-spyware apps because none could find everything, but a-squared is about as close as you can get to a single-shot solution. And like AVG, they have a free personal version (same engine as commercial, just less extra features and requires manual updates).
Webroot Anti-spyware... worth it.
Discussion in 'Security and Anti-Virus Software' started by Nocturnal310, Jan 24, 2008.